Biography:
Javier Rico obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Energy Engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Málaga. A year and a half later, in 2019, he also earned an Interuniversity Master's Degree in Industrial Mathematics from the Carlos III University of Madrid.
His Master's thesis marked the beginning of his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Propulsion at the School of Aeronautical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
His thesis focused on studying the interaction between geothermal boreholes and groundwater flows. For this task, he employed applied mathematics techniques related to partial differential equations and matched asymptotic expansion techniques, which have traditionally been used in the fields of aeronautics and fluid mechanics, as well as numerical analysis and modeling in heat transfer problems.
Areas of interest:
Perturbation methods, numerical modelling and analysis, fluid dynamics and computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer and renewable energy.
L.F. Prieto-Martínez, J. Rico, "Bi-infinite Riordan matrices: A matricial approach to multiplication and composition of formal Laurent series", Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 731, pp. 139 - 159, February 2026. [Online: November 2025] doi: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.11.010
JCR-JIF: 1,100 Q2 (2025) - SJR: 0,869 Q1 (2025) J. Rico, M. Hermanns, "Thermal interaction of slender geothermal boreholes with strong groundwater flows", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 253, pp. 127418, December 2025. [Online: July 2025] doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2025.127418
JCR-JIF: 6,600 Q1 (2025); - SJR: 1,224 Q1 (2025); J. Rico, M. Hermanns, "On the network of thermal resistances embodying the response of geothermal boreholes to creeping groundwater flows", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 204, pp. 109222, October 2024. [Online: June 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2024.109222
JCR-JIF: 5,000 Q1 (2024); 4,900 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 1,160 Q1 (2024); 0,903 Q1 (2025) J. Rico, M. Hermanns, "Thermal interaction of slender geothermal boreholes with creeping groundwater flows", Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 236, nº. Part C, pp. 121626, January 2024. [Online: September 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121626
JCR-JIF: 6,900 Q1 (2024); 7,500 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 1,579 Q1 (2024); 1,556 Q1 (2025) 
